Transcript The first civilizations began along river valleys.

World History Final
Exam Review
2015
The first civilizations began
along river valleys.
Writing was the most important
development of prehistoric times.
Fire
The first dynasty of China was
the Shang.
The Egyptians measured things in
cubits.
Constantine was Rome’s first
emperor.
Octavian
Egyptians believed in
reincarnation, the wrapping of
dead bodies in cloth strips.
mummification
A monsoon is a seasonal wind
that brings rain to India.
Geography is the science that deals
with land, weather, bodies of water,
and plant and animal life.
The Sumerians invented writing.
A century is a period of a
hundred years.
Egyptian civilization has given
nothing important to the
modern world.
Many important
Solon, a Greek leader, helped
create democracy.
The Iliad and the Odyssey tell
us about the Trojan War.
Only Iliad is bout the
war
The reign of Augustus Caesar is
known as the “Golden Age of Rome”.
A republic is a kind of government
with no king in which a few
people speak for the many.
The earliest people were
nomads
artifacts
embers
_______ fought with bows and
arrows.
archers
artisans
acrobats
In a _______ war people of the
same country fight each other.
civil
world
cultural
_______ is the record of
past events.
culture
civilization
history
Prehistory is the period in which
people did not produce
________ records.
pained
written
stone
The Sumerians built their
city-states in _______.
Mesopotamia
China
Egypt
The Egyptian civilization
developed in the valley of the
_______.
Indus
Yellow
Nile
An agreement to work together
to help one another is a
_______.
covenant
alliance
bargain
An _______ studies the
beginnings and behavior of early
people.
artifact
astronaut
anthropologist
_______ was one of the most
important prehistoric
discoveries.
fire
obsidian
artifacts
An empire is a nation which
_______ a large area of land.
adopts
annexes
rules
The Jewish people call their
scared book the _______.
Vedas
papyrus
bible
_______was the first
woman pharaoh.
Darius I
Mohenjo-Daro
Hatshepsut
The first villages in India and
China grew up along _______.
deserts
mountains
River valleys
Match each item
bison
culture
eclipse
diary
decay
To rot away or
spoil
Another name for buffalo
When the moon
hides the sun
The values, attitudes,
customs & language
of a group
A primary source
Match each item
pharaoh
Believe in
reincarnation
Hindus
A large piece of land
smaller than a
continent
subcontinent
An Egyptian ruler
caste
Class of people in India
Grand Canal
Joined the Yellow & the
Yangtze Rivers
Match each item
cuneiform
Sargon I
Phoenicians
Became famous
as sailors
Sumerian writing
Everyone feared their
powerful army
Assyrians
To disobey or fight
against
rebel
United the city-state
of Mesopotamia
Match each item
Zoroaster
Temple where Sumerians
worshipped their gods.
ziggurat
Created the first law code
Hammurabi
Moses led them out
of slavery
Hebrews
Religious leader who
preached to Persians
nomads
People who do not live in
one place
Match each item
Claudius
Theodosius
plague
One reason for the decline
of the Roman Empire
Chosen by guards to be
emperor of Rome
His code became the basis for
European legal systems
Justinian
useful
practical
Made Christianity the official
religion of the Roman
Empire
Match each item
democracy
plebeians
A group of actors who stand on
stage and tell what is
happening in a Greek play
fought the Trojans in the Trojan War
Mycenaean
Greatest contribution of the Greeks
helots
Common people in Rome
who were not rich
chorus
Spartan slaves
Another word for the human race.
A first-hand account of a
historical event.
The customs, values, and
language of a people.
Having to do with the whole
world.
An object made by a person.
Scientists measure the amount of
carbon left in an artifact in this
kind of dating.
The earliest period of human
history.
This helped Stone-Age humans
store their food.
A hard metal made of copper and
tin.
A people who have government
and cities.
What metal covering protects the
body in battle?
What area in the Middle East is
shaped like a quarter-moon?
What is the system of making and
trading things called?
Vocabulary word What do we call
a ruler of a province or a state?
Which Egyptian kingdom is
known as the “empire age”?
Who crossed the Alps with
elephants and invaded Italy?
Which Roman emperor was
considered insane or mentally ill?
Which war last for 100 years and
was fought between Rome and
Carthage?
A _____________________ is a
Greek city-state.
Vocabulary word
When King Philip II conquered
Greece, the Greeks lost their
________________ or freedom.
A _________________ is a
governing body that helps rulers
make decisions.
Rule by three people is called a
_______________________ was
a Greek philosopher who
questioned Athenian democracy
and was put to death for doing
so.
Many Romans saw the new
religion of ________ as an
answer to their problems.
____________________ was a
soldier who conquered the world
between 334 B.C. and 323 B.C.
Make a list of the things you have
learned about this year in World
History.
The rich layer of soil left behind
after a flood is_______.
delta
papyrus
silt